Published: 2019-12-151

The history and significance of the records of the Polish student nation at the University of Padua in 1592–1745

Mirosław Lenart
Echa Przeszłości
Section: ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.4833

Abstract

The article discusses the records of the Polish student nation at the University in Padua which are kept at the university’s Historical Archives. Two volumes of records, previously known as Album, Codicilli, Liber Nationis and Liber Congregationis s. Stanislai, list the citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who studied or only resided in Padua between 1592 and 1749. The records are a unique historical source for exploring Poland’s academic and intellectual life in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods. The Historical Archives of the University of Padua are also invaluable for exploring the presence of Polish students in Italian universities, in particular the University of Padua, and the history of cultural and educational travel. The records contain elaborate illustrations depicting coats of arms and allegorical images, and they deserve separate heraldic research.

Keywords:

natio polona, records of the Polish student nation, University of Padua

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Lenart, M. (2019). The history and significance of the records of the Polish student nation at the University of Padua in 1592–1745. Echa Przeszłości, (XX/1). https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.4833

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